Eriosorus

Description

They are terrestrial plants; with short to long creeping rhizome, with trichomes and scales on the base; Leaves monomorphic, small to large, scandent or erect, non-articulated; Petiole and rachis atropurp-reos, spread to densely trichomatous to glandular, rachis sometimes flexuous; 5-pinned pinnate pinniped, usually trichomatous or glandular; Pinnae mostly at right angles to the rachis, rarely reflected; Last segments mostly linear and generally with a single nerve; Free nerves mostly ending before the margins in a marginal recess; Sporangia along the nerves in the terminal segments, absent paraphyses, absent indus , tetrahedral-globose spores.